Macro museum street art exhibition

Macro museum street art exhibition

The Macro, Rome’s MOMA if you will, has a fab new exhibit ‘Cross the Streets’ looking at 40 years of street art and writing. The importance of street art as a unique avant-garde is explored in it’s different mediums, such as advertising, fashion, music, and film.

Techniques and styles discussed are graffiti, pop-surrealism, stencil art, photography, and film. As the main curator of the exhibition, Paulo von Vacano explains, “a revolution occurs when the street enters the museum, and when the museum becomes the street”. In the exhibition catalogue, he states that surviving the streets means that you can rule the world, pointing to a number of urban creatives who became famous, coming from the streets. “The street watches and the street governs”, continues von Vacano, “the street is one of the cursors on the contemporary art map, which governs much of what is going on in the art world.”